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"Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down," DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said. It's gonna be fun, Brad, slapping you around the blogosphere. Looking forward to it.
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Excellent points, Rose. I'm not sure why, but this Woodhouse guy is personifying everything I dislike in cheap political hacks. I won't call him a "whore" because that would be a step up for his ilk. I have every intention of taking this fool to the woodshed throughout the next election cycle. Should be fun.
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Gee...I thought she was just a redneck beauty queen...if she is "leaving Alaska high and dry", does that mean she's actually a good governor?
It sounds crazy at first blush, and the sounding crazy part may be more permanently damaging than she realizes, but there are a few data points that seem pretty pertinent.
1) She can't run against Mitt Romney in the primary from Wasilla or Juneau. She has a job. He doesn't. She has to hear constantly about how she's out flouncing around on the speaking circuit on the mainland when she should be governating. She's being peppered with bs ethics probes and it's costing them a fortune; far more than she and Todd make.
2) Deciding not to run again is an easy decision. There's some logic to not wanting to be continually accused of phoning it in once she announces that, and I've read that GOP Alaska wanted a decision by the fall for fundraising purposes. So she was looking at a year plus of no-win situation. Anyone would say that being the Gov of AK isn't spit anyhow, so how much good does another year do?
3) It's possible that, in this extended vacuum we've all seen in the GOP, she can take a real role -- in fighting the climate change legislation, for instance, and offering an alternative energy plan. She can take a much more strident conservative tack than may be possible from Juneau.
4) Could be that in some circles she's being basically called off of the bench -- Sanford is done, Ensign is done, and she can't be put in a position where she's choosing between being stuck in AK doing the job, but never getting any points for it, or branching out and getting a bunch of crap about how irresponsible she is. She's not rehabilitating herself on the national stage, either way. Lose-lose situation.
5) The attacks on her kids are going beyond the pale, and even though she can and does fight back, don't you think that there's a whispering campaign in AK to the effect that none of this would be happening if she were just staying home and doing the governor thing?
However, the most important part for right now is that it seems nutty- and that might be the takeaway even down the road, unless she does something really meaningful. It's also a teeny bit unfortunate in timing vis a vis Sanford; it's easy to imply that there must be some scandal brewing, because he had/has a doozy and still isn't quitting.
And yes, Obama will call her on this, at which point she can point out that, unlike Obama, she didn't want to keep taking the paycheck and voting "present" even on the rare occasions when she bothered to show up -- and that she wasn't arrogant enough to think that half of her was better than all of her Lt. Gov. She can also point out that the issues on the national stage were so important to Alaskans and all Americans that she made the better call at a critical time, leaving Alaska in good hands and not tying those hands from a distance out of ego or selfishness.
She's got her work cut out for her, though. Bristol's a young single mom, and she's abused, made fun of and basically treated like she walked out of the comic book version of Jerry Springer. Obama's mother was a young single mom and you'd think the guy was born in a manger full of hay. Not exactly a level playing field.
The next 30 days will be very telling, I think.